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We have quite the plum crop this year - our tree has produced so much fruit that three of the branches have broken off from excess weight.  It looks more like grapes than any fruit tree I've ever seen.  Next year we'll have to actually trim the darn thing, but this year - TOO MANY PLUMS!  They have to be picked every day or we have a carpet of burst fruit that fell to the ground - and even when we do collect every day there are fallen plums waiting for us.

We fill a grocery sack every day (that's without actually getting all the ripe ones - it's a tall tree!) and put it curbside with a note that says, "DEAR LORD SAVE US FROM THESE" and we've gotten quite a few takers.

The center picture is today's crop: all 27 pounds of it.

Anyone want a plum?

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Finn wanted to go home and get all his money and give it to Andy Grammer, so I think he had fun ;)

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It seems Ryan and I have been exceptionally convincing in our conversion to vegetarianism - so much so that we've created little environmentalists.

Finn and Cael decided they wanted their dad to make a law to make eating meat illegal so that we can save the planet and not consume so many natural resources.  When I explained to them that was not something Ryan is in a position to do, they asked who gets to make laws.

They now both want to grow up and become congressmen for the express purpose of outlawing meat.  Cael decided that expecting people to give up meat completely is too ambitious and he wants to make it so people can only eat a little meat.  Finn, on the other hand, is very firm in his zero meat policy.

Mama:  So you're okay with being a vegetarian now?
Finn:  Not yet. When I grow up.
Mama:  When you grow up you're going to make meat illegal but for now you still want to eat it?
Finn:  Yeah.  I really like chicken nuggets.

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